One of Sputnik V Covid vaccine creators killed in Moscow

The Investigative Committee of Russia launched an investigation over the murder registered on March 2 in northwestern Moscow. According to the investigation, a 29-year-old tenant quarreled with the owner of an apartment and strangled him to death with a belt. The owner is reported to be Botikov.

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The suspect confessed to the crime during an interrogation, reports RIA Novosti. He has already been charged and if convicted, faces up to 15 years in prison.

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Andrey Botikov had worked as a virologist at Russia's Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology since 2014. He was awarded by the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin with a state order for his work on the Sputnik V vaccine.

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